Learn why some researchers say that our culture – not genetics – is driving our evolution and what that could mean for our ...

In his new BBC show, Jim Al-Khalili journeys through hundreds of millions of years of brain evolution. Live Science spoke to ...

Until Homo floresiensis was discovered, scientists assumed that the evolution of the human lineage was defined by bigger and ...

A new study examines the evolutionary connection between the fine manipulation of objects and the associated development of ...

In a remarkable turn of events, scientists have stumbled upon non-human DNA from ancient fossils, shaking the very ...

Are humans evolving more through culture than DNA? A new study explores how medicine, technology, and institutions may guide ...

Scientists have claimed in a new paper that humans are going through a significant evolutionary period right now. You might ...

New research on the size relationship between brains and wisdom teeth suggests that bigger brains aren’t necessarily the driving force in human evolution.

Not literally, of course. But similarly to an ant colony, two scientists say our collective culture—not genetics—has become ...

Exposed in 1953, the Piltdown Man forgery misled scientists for four decades. Charles Dawson’s fake fossils combined a ...

Autism-linked genes evolved rapidly in humans. They may have aided brain growth and language. A recent study published in Molecular Biology and Evolution by Oxford University Press suggests that the r ...

Scroll through social media and you’ll find macaws swaying to pop songs, engaging in a shared dance that feels delightfully ...